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That the said Earl in the Fifteenth and Six∣teenth years of his Majesties Reign, and divers years past, laboured and endeavoured to beget in his Majesty an ill opinion of his Subjects, namely those of the Scotish Nation▪ and divers and sundry times, and especially since the paci∣fication made by his Majesty with his said Sub∣jects of Scotland, in Summer, in the Fifteenth year of his Majesties Reign, he the said Earl did labour and endeavour to perswade, incite, and provoke his Majesty to an offensive War against his said Subjects of the Scotish Nation; and the said Earl, by his counsel, actions, and endea∣vours hath been, and is a chief Incendiary of the War and Discord between his Majesty and his Subjects of England, and the said Subjects of Scotland, and hath declared, and advised his Ma∣jesty, that the Demand made by the Scots in this Parliament, were a sufficient cause of War a∣gainst them. The said Earl having formerly ex∣pressed the height and rancor of his mind to∣wards his Subjects of the Scotish Nation, viz. the Tenth day of October, in the fifteenth year of his Majesties Reign, he said, That the Nation of the Scots were Rebels and Traytors: And he being then about to come to England, he then further said, That if it pleased his Master (meaning his Ma∣jesty) to send him back again, he would root out of the said Kingdom (meaning the Kingdom of Ire∣land) the Scotish Nation both root and branch. Some Lords, and others who had taken the said Oath in the precedent Article, only excepted. And the said Earl hath caused divers of the said Ships and Goods of the Scots to be stayed, seized and molested, to the intent to set on the said War.